More recently, the Oslo peace process gave the embryonic political institutions of the embryonic Palestine a powerful foothold in the city, symbolised by the transformation of Orient House, a former hotel, into a cross between a town hall and an embassy.
Shan Wang of Stanford has used a GMR chip smaller than a postage stamp to detect carcinoma-embryonic antigen (a sign of colon and rectal cancer) and human papilloma virus, the main cause of cervical cancer.
This morning, Geron of Menlo Park, for years a leading company in embryonic stem cell research, announced that the first patient had been dosed in a study of its embryonic stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury.
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"Any adult stem cell scientist is disadvantaged, and that's because there is a deliberate focus to fund embryonic stem cell research and a focus away from adult stem cell research, " Dr. Deisher said.
Forget all the debate about vexing embryonic ethics for a second.
James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin, who co-wrote the paper in Science and created the first human embryonic stem cells a decade ago, said on a conference call that these new cells are going to be "very powerful" in testing new medicines.
After a career in Hong Kong that earned him a cult following for work such as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, he packed his bags in 1992 and set off for Hollywood with his family, an embryonic reputation, a smattering of English and a savvy production partner, Terence Chang.
Cyclopamine, it turns out, blocks the function of a gene called Sonic hedgehog that is essential for embryonic development but also plays a lead role in causing deadly cancers of the pancreas, skin, prostate and esophagus.
Initially Grove was enthusiastic about the potential of embryonic stem cells as a treatment.
With OS 6, Apple introduced Passbook, a somewhat embryonic software scheme to facilitate electronic ticketing and couponing.
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The researchers then mixed them with embryonic stem cells in a petri dish.
But an embryonic plan to create a super-regulator for consumer products, such as mortgages, credit cards and mutual funds, is already encountering stiff opposition.
Geron's current CEO, Thomas Okarma , believes the first uses of embryonic stem cells as a therapy will have to make use of powerful drugs that suppress the immune system.
When the first iPS cells were developed two years ago in Japan and the United States, skin cells were reprogrammed to be able to have properties similar to a human embryonic stem cell.
When embryonic stem cells were a highly controversial topic at the beginning of the decade, some companies offered to store fat cells from liposuction for a fee after it was discovered that there were stem cells in the fat, but their practical use had not been established.
Without adequate preparation, says Abdel-Mohsin al-Akkas, a member of the majlis al-shura, the country's embryonic parliament, elections would be a leap in the dark.
Melton and other academics will now have better access to embryonic stem cells due to a deal negotiated by Thompson with the University of Wisconsin.
Although President Bush limited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to a few existing stem cell colonies, he did not make such research illegal...
McKay and his colleagues used embryonic stem cells to create a particular type of neuron that can be used to treat a model of Parkinson's disease in mice.
But currently there remain too many unresolved problems with their generation, and embryonic stem cells are considered a necessary tool in the continued research on how to perfect iPS cells for potential therapeutic use.
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After several days, the ball of cells that results contains a blanket of embryonic stem cells endowed with the genetic material of the donor skin cell, which have the ability to generate every cell type from that donor.
Which is why it might surprise some people that Church was a defender of James Sherley, the researcher whose lawsuit has now led to an injunction on government funding of embryonic stem cell research during a tenure dispute.
At the clinic, run by Dr. Geeta Shroff, a former obstetrician and pediatrician who admits she is self taught in the practice of stem cell medicine, Cash received embryonic stem cell injections for a disorder that resembles Down syndrome and is caused by a missing part of his X chromosome.
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The ethical implications of embryonic cloning continue to divide the international community, with the UK and South Korea among only a handful of countries that permit embryonic stem cell research.
Could, as Asashima hopes, embryonic stem cells be taken from a baby's placenta at birth and stored?
One analyst soothsaid a challenge for the embryonic service: Cingular is eons behind its competitors in launching the service.
In a recent development, embryonic stem cells have been created by using viruses to modify the genes of skin cells.
A. Non-embryonic stem cell lines involve cells that are more differentiated and thus less capable of being programmed into various cell lines.
In these examples, we can see in embryonic form how the message of a possible health benefit emerges from weak and inconsistent results.
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Last year, the company got approval from the Food and Drug Administration last July to run a clinical trial of embryonic stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.
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